We just combined Flash Games, Video Games, and MMOs into "Games". This is an effort to streamline our forums, as we have too many specialized forums for our size community.
I am checking the post activity in the forums we combine. Ideally, a forum will have just enough daily activity to have 1 page of active threads.
More forum combinations will probably be coming.
Any links to old forums will redirect to the new forum.
Combine all the garbage that disqus has into the forums too. Because it's as slow (sorry, slower).
I also have to refresh my ENTIRE game every 30 minutes just to get new posts (every minute if I'm looking for a response - you hear that? NOT playing GAMES on your site cause I'm refreshing a slow forum embedded at the bottom). New posts take anywhere from 10-120 minutes to show. The forums are much faster.